Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person who is in charge of the operations of a post office.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The official who has charge of a post-station and provides post-horses, etc.
  • noun The official who has the superintendence and general direction of a post-office, of the receipt and despatch of mails, etc.
  • noun In Merton College, Oxford, a scholar who is supported on the foundation. Also called portionist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.
  • noun One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the head of a post office
  • noun the administrator of an electronic mail system
  • noun UK A kind of scholar at Merton College, Oxford; portionist.
  • noun archaic One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travellers; one who supplies post horses.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the person in charge of a post office

Etymologies

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post + master

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Examples

  • As if this were not sinister enough, the letter goes on to threaten that if the sub-postmaster is deemed not to have lied to his or her customers in the appropriate and approved manner their compensation package would be at risk.

    I Am Become Death the Destroyer of Truth 2007

  • As if this were not sinister enough, the letter goes on to threaten that if the sub-postmaster is deemed not to have lied to his or her customers in the appropriate and approved manner their compensation package would be at risk.

    Archive 2007-07-29 2007

  • The postmaster is a surly and incompetent manager.

    Frustration with mail situation in Jocotepec 2004

  • When I called the postmaster, he said that he wasn't sure I understood what the form was for he'd highlighted the bit about "sexually provocative material".

    April 20th, 2003 vakkotaur 2003

  • I soon observed that some one called the postmaster aside in a way which did not appear entirely devoid of mystery, and I acknowledge I felt some degree of alarm.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • I do not know that our village postmaster is exceptionally inattentive to his functions, but there is a careless, reckless, easy-go-lucky kind of way of doing business in this country which suits the hasty existence of the natives themselves, and the character and disposition of their Irish fellow-citizens, but which is gall and wormwood to English residents of my stamp.

    Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters 1891

  • I soon observed that some one called the postmaster aside in a way which did not appear entirely devoid of mystery, and I acknowledge I felt some degree of alarm.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • I soon observed that some one called the postmaster aside in a way which did not appear entirely devoid of mystery, and I acknowledge I felt some degree of alarm.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • The check was lost in the mail for a couple of weeks, and I called the postmaster (it was a small town) to see if he could help track it.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • And you also think the president isn’t a citizen and that my postmaster is some how wrapped up in some absurd imaginary global climate hoax, so I mean who really cares?

    Think Progress » Brown victory party featured flag calling for a ‘second’ revolution, tea party-inspired civil war. 2010

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